Careers for ISTJ Personality Types

Whether you're a young adult trying to find your place in the world,
or a not-so-young adult trying to find out if you're moving along the
right path, it's important to understand yourself and the personality traits that
will impact your likeliness to succeed or fail at various careers. It's
equally important to understand what is really important to you. When
armed with an understanding of your strengths and weaknesses, and an
awareness of what you truly value, you are in an excellent position to
pick a career that you will find rewarding.

ISTJs generally have the following traits:

Value tradition, security, and peaceful living

Will work long and hard to fulfill duties

Can be depended on to follow through on tasks

Loyal and faithful

Stable, practical and down-to-earth

Family-minded

Dislike doing things that don't make sense to them

Dislike abstract theory, unless they see the practical application

Natural leaders

Prefer to work alone, but work well in teams when necessary

Extremely observant, they take in facts via their senses and store them internally

Vast, rich inner store of facts that they rely on to understand problems that they encounter in their lives

Profound respect for facts and concrete information

Make decisions objectively, applying logic and rational thinking

Dislike change, unless they are shown it's benefit in a concrete way

Have strong opinions about the way things should be done

Appreciate structured, orderly environments

Have very high standards for their own behavior and the behavior of others

Not naturally in-tune with other people's feelings

Able to accomplish almost anything if they put their minds to it

Community minded "good citizens"

ISTJs have one character trait that puts them at a definite advantage in
terms of career success - Perserverance. An ISTJ can do almost anything that
they have decided to do. However, there are areas in which they will
function more happily and naturally. An ISTJ will do best in a career in
which they can use their excellent organizational skills and their powers of
concentration to create order and structure. ISTJs seem to fit extremely
well into the Management and Executive layer of the corporate business
world.

The following list of professions is built on our impression of careers
that would be especially suitable for an ISTJ. It is meant to be a starting
place, rather than an exhaustive list. There are no guarantees that any
or all of the careers listed here would be appropriate for you, or that your
best career match is among those listed.